The 2013 NBA Draft

The rains we have already had today the field in Kinston is unplayable for tonight so the game has been moved to Rocky Mount.  Now we all can see rain falling here and in spots it has been heavy so the only hope to keep on a schedule is to flip flop games.  So tonight P 58 is home to Kinston.  I will keep you updated whether the game can be play at Legion Field in Rocky Mount.  Will need some sunshine this afternoon.


Is there anyone who  knows how much money pro sports really makes?  I watch more of the NBA   draft from about pick 15 until the end of the first round than I have watched NBA basketball during the 2013 season.  That thing done out on the basketball court they call basketball makes me sick to watch so I don't watch it.

I am amazed at how they just throw money out to players who can't play basketball.  The word potential will get a person six feet five a million dollars just because somebody thinks he might be taught how to play basketball.  This is pro basketball in order to be a pro you are already suppose to know more than an eighth grader about how to play.  One of those basketball analyst reading off the traits of one of those first round picks had a list longer of what he couldn't do than what he could.  This is basketball and if on my negatives they have the word can't shoot. Please leave him alone.  If at 19 years old a player who has spent all of his life on a play ground playing ball he will never learn how to shoot.

NBA owners are stupid enough to pay a million or more to try to teach him.  I guess all those jerseys and TV money the owners are rolling in they are embarrassed to keep it all to themselves.  There will be a point in time that people will get fed up with paying $200 a ticket  or when the game comes on TV they watch soccer or Lacrosse instead.  and the TV ratings dry up so goes the money.  You may laugh about soccer or LaCrosse but here is a prediction.  Raleigh is less that 15 years away from a major soccer franchise but no where near a Pro basketball team.  There is going to be a stadium in Raleigh that will hold 40,000 soccer fans soon.

What little bit of the NBA finals that I watch LeBron James did about all he could do.  His line in one game was 18 points 11 rebounds and 11 assists.  The experts were whining about how bad he played.  James reminds me of Wilt Chamberlain.  He was a monster at over seven feet and no one could handle him except Bill Russell.  If it were not for Bill Russell Wilt would have been the greatest basketball player in the history of the world but Bill won titles and Wilt got a couple.

LeBron plays guard and when he take off going to the basket it's like a bull in a china shop.  He is not that good a passer only average shooter from beyond 20 feet but I will give him credit for one thing, he makes everybody on his team better.  LeBron is so big he has no grace at all on the court.  Magic was his size but he could pass, shoot and one thing he could do is play center if need be.  What makes James so much better than everyone is  his huge size over anyone who is going to guard him.  Big men can't stay up with him and he beats small men to death.

I don't have a lot of respect for coaches like Doc Rivers.  Rivers wanted out of Boston because he didn't want to be part of a rebuilding program.  What does that tell me?  He's not much of a coach is he.  How many championships did he coach until Boston management brought in a team that could win it once?  I don't know many coaches that the satisfaction of coaching is seeing players get better regardless of winning a championship or not.  I think Rivers likes that money that goes with being a winning coach.  I kind of hope now that Chris Paul jumps ship in LA and leaves Rivers with a rebuilding team.  Serves him right.